Knitted fabric.



No. 865,279. y PATENTBD SEPT. s, '1907.

B. T. STEBER.

KNITTBD FABRIC.

APPLICATION FILED 11113.26. 190e.

WITNESSES. y lN-VENTOF.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BERNARD T. STEBER, OF ETICA, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO THE STEBER MACHINE GOMPAN OF UTIOA, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK. l

KNITIED FABRIC.

Specification of Letters Patent.

,Patented sept. 3,1907.

Application filed February 26, 1906. Serial No. 303,011.

To all whom 'it may concern: v

Be it known that I, BERNARD T. STEBER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Utica, in the county of Oneida and State of NewA York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Knitted Fabric, of which the following is a specification.

, My invention relates to4 that class of ribbed knitted fabrics, which have wales on one side and meshes on the opposite side, and with which is combined a yarn having projecting loops which can be submitted to a brushing or gigging action, so as to produce a eecy surface upon one side of the fabric. The base fabric is formed of an alternating series of longitudinal wales, knit each from a different yarn, or from the same yarn at different times if so desired. The stitches forming the wales are all drawn toward the outside of the fabric. The loops forming each Wale, each include a portion of the other yarn connecting the two neighboring loops at the back of the fabric. The connecting portions of the loops form four-sided meshes on the back of the fabric, which thus exhibits on one face parallel longitudinal wales alternately of different yarns and on the other side lozenge shaped meshes or reticulations formed by the connecting legs of the loops.

The object of my invention is to produce a fabric having superior wearing qualities a considerable amount of elasticity, and a ribbed face side, resembling very nearly the Strutt rib in conjunction with a fleece side. I attain this object by knitting a fabric from a plurality of threads, thefabric being of double thickness, each thread or series of threads forming independent wales alternately arranged, the connect-f ing threads of each set of wales being interknitted with thc intervening Wales the wales forming the ribs of one side of the cloth, and the connecting threads forming meshes on the opposite side, the leecing thread bein laid between the wales and meshes.

In the drawings accompanying and forming part of this specification, Figure 1 represents in exaggerated form, a complete piece of my fabric. Fig. 2, a piece of fabric having the fleecing thread withdrawn.

1 and 2 represent successive courses of stitches, 3-3 the lio-ating threads forming the leecing loops and 'pz-aare the meshes and b. b. the wales. t

It will be observed that the leecing thread, 3, is inlaid between the Wale threads b, and the mesh threads, d. And that it is drawn in loops or piles through the meshes -a-aand that it can be drawn in any desired lengths, and can easily be brushed or napped to form fleece, without weakening the knitted portion of the fabric in the least. By knitting a fabric in this manner I am enabled to insert a very considerable proportion of fleecing thread with reference to the finished fabric, as it will be observed that it is possible to draw a fleecing loop through each and every mesh comprising the inner face of the fabric if so desired.

I have produced this fabric in vseveral ways, but would call especial attention to my knitting machine patent 810,578 issued Jair. 23d 1906 which describes and shows an ideal method of producing such a fabric, and that it may be knitted from one, or more pairs of threads.

The term loop as employed herein is not to be construed to mean a laid in yarn the portions whereof, intermediate the points at which it is tied'to the base fabric are non-looped, that is to say are disposed substantially parallel with the floats of the ribs of the base fabric where not tied thereto. l

- Having now described my invention what I claim as new and desire to cover by Letters Patent is 1. A knit fabric comprising at the front face wales each knit of one only of two body yarns, each loop of each Wale including a portion of yarn connecting at the back two adjacent like wales, and a eecing yarn passing in front of certain of the connecting portions and extending in loops at the back of the fabric.

2. A fabric knit from two yarns, all of the knit loops of which appear in wales upon one face, loops of each yarn being drawn through loops of its own kind only, and having a fleecing yarn looped between the connecting legs ot the knit stitches'on the opposite face.

3. A knit fabric comprising two alternating series 0f Wales of knit loops, the connecting thread of adjacent Wales of each series being caught in and embraced by the knit loops of the ,intervening wales of the other series and a fleecing yarn looped between the connecting threads.

4. A eeced knit fabric having a base whose face is p formed of an alternating series of longitudinal wales knit each from a different yarn, the stitches forming the wales all being drawn toward the saine side of the fabric, the loops forming each Wale, each including a portion of the other yarn connecting the two neighboring loops at the back of the fabric, the connecting portions' of the loops forming four sided meshes on the back of the fabric, thusv exhibiting on one face parallel longitudinal wales alternately of dilferent yarns and on the other side lozenge shaped meshes formed by the connecting legs of'the loops, and an independent supplemental ileecing thread having loops extending through the said lozenge shaped meshes.

5. A knit fabric, all of the knit loops of which appear in wales upon one side, the loops4 of said wales being drawn between the oats'or connecting threads o'f the adjoining wales, and a ileecing yarn looped loosely through said connecting threads.

6. A fabric knit from two yarns; all of the knit loops of which appear in wales 'upon one face, loops of each yarn being drawn through loops of its own k-ind only, and having a fleecing yarn looped between each of the connecting cluding a portion of the other yarn, and having a fleeci'ng legs of the knit stitches on the opposite face. yarn looped between the connected legs of the knit stitches 7. A knitted fabric, all of the knit loops of which appeal' on the opposite face. in wales upon one side, the loops of said wales being In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this 5 drawn between and including a portion of the oats oi' conspecication in the presence of two subscribing witnesses. l5 necting threads of the adjoining wales, and a eecing yarn I looped loosely through said connecting threads. ,BERNARD T' STEBER' 8. A fabric knit from two yarns, al1 of the knit loops of Witnesses: which appear in wales upon onetime, loops of each yarn M. E. BLASIER,

10 being drawn through loops of its own kind only, and in- F. A. KLEIN. 

